CQ on Congress

President Donald Trump will address a joint session of Congress
on Feb. 28 and no one knows what to expect from this most
unpredictable of presidents. It’s another episode in the Washington
reality show that is Trump’s presidency and representatives and
senators are extras, perhaps against their will, in the
drama....

Democrats and liberals hoping to
build a movement against the policies of President Donald Trump
should take a page out of the Tea Party's 2010 movement and focus
on "policies that build power," says Vanessa Williamson, the
co-author of the 2012 book The Tea Party and the Remaking of
Republican Conservatism.

After a
bruising Senate confirmation process, Betsy DeVos is now Education
Department chief. But she still has a lot of distrust to overcome,
says CQ Roll Call’s education reporter Emily Wilkins. Even so,
she's poised to influence how Congress and America view one of the
pillars of American life – public schools.

Based on
federal appellate court Judge Neil Gorsuch’s previous rulings in
religious cases, President Donald Trump could find himself at odds
with his Supreme Court nominee over the executive order restricting
refugees and immigrants from countries that are mostly Muslim, says
CQ Roll Call's Legal Affairs writer Todd...